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Human rights defenders (741)
Feb 20 2019 1:36pm
Urgent Action update: Indigenous rights defenders disappeared
On 12 February, Mexican Indigenous human rights defenders, Obtilia Eug...
Feb 18 2019 3:02pm
Urgent Action: Sixty-two activists, protesters arbitrarily held
Sixty-two people including activists from the Independence Movement of...
Feb 13 2019 11:40am
Urgent Action: Detained online activist alleges torture in prison
Soro Tangboho alias Carton noir, an outspoken online activist, was arb...
Feb 11 2019 3:27pm
Urgent Action: Labour rights activists at risk of further torture
Iranian labour rights activists Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Gholian, wh...
Feb 7 2019 2:46pm
Urgent Action: Activist arbitrarily detained for almost 6 months
Peter Biar Ajak, a prominent South Sudanese academic and activist, has...
Feb 7 2019 1:48pm
Urgent Action: Human rights defender under house arrest
On 23 January, Anastasia Shevchenko, an Open Russia human rights defen...
Feb 7 2019 12:32pm
Urgent Action outcome: Mauritanian anti-slavery activists released
Two anti-slavery activists Biram Dah Abeid and Abdellahi el Housein Me...
Feb 6 2019 2:51pm
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender tried in secret
Huang Qi, founder and director of Sichuan-based human rights website “...
Feb 5 2019 1:40pm
Urgent Action: Woman human rights defender facing threats online
Woman human rights defender Fátima Mimbire has been receiving intimida...
Jan 29 2019 3:29pm
Urgent Action update: Woman attacked for seeking justice for son
On 11 January, two unidentified men in a motorbike shot three times at...